Brooke Holmes ,Princeton University

My research interests lie in the history and philosophy of concepts, with a particular interest in the behavior of concepts about the physical body, nature, and life in ancient Greek and Roman textual sources and the problems these concepts create for attempts to theorize the subject and forms of ethical and political agency. I am equally interested in the long and tangled reception of these concepts and problems, especially in twentieth and twenty-first century continental philosophy. My work, especially under the auspices of the Postclassicisms network, has increasingly been addressed to the ways in which reception communities conceptualize their relationship to the Greco-Roman past, with an interest in producing and imagining new forms of relation between that past and the present. My areas of specialization encompass ancient Greek medicine and life science, ancient philosophy, Greek literature—especially Homer and tragedy—Lucretius, reception studies, literary theory, medical humanities and bioethics, environmental humanities, gender and sexuality studies, and twentieth-century French philosophy.